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Police identify 5-year-old fatal shooting victim
sa国际传媒官网网页入口 police have identified the 5-year-old girl shot and killed early Sunday as Galilea Samaniego.
The child was sleeping in a mobile home in the 2700 block of Paseo del Canto SW when bullets were fired into the residence just before 6 a.m. Sunday.
Detectives determined that the girl didn鈥檛 live at the home, and she was sleeping in an area of the trailer facing the street when she was shot.
According to the sa国际传媒官网网页入口 Police Department, at least one bullet hit the child, and an officer arriving on the scene soon after the shooting attempted life-saving measures. She was transported to a hospital and died soon after.
Police said late Monday they had recovered two Kia Souls 鈥渨ith potential ties鈥� to the homicide.
The department earlier in the day released images of two vehicles, saying they had been seen in the area at the time of the shooting.
鈥淲hile we can鈥檛 go into the circumstances of the recovered vehicles, we have reason to believe they may be connected to the drive-by shooting that took the life of an innocent, 5-year-old girl,鈥� Chief Harold Medina said in a news release.
He encouraged anyone with information on the case to contact authorities.
鈥淲e also believe several people have information that can help our detectives with this investigation,鈥� Medina said. 鈥淲e urge those individuals to come forward and do the right thing.鈥�
